United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 30
Chap. XXX.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to alter and amend an act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive;” approved nineteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Act of Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 30, expired.
Occupants prior to October 31, 1832, authorized to purchase.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who became entitled to an allotment of land under the contract recited in the first section of the act to which this is an amendment, their heirs, devisees, or assigns, who, on or before the thirty-first day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, were in actual occupancy and cultivation of the same, or any part thereof, shall, on paying into the treasury one dollar and twenty-five cents the acre previous to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, receive a patent for his or her allotment or purchase: Provided, The register of the land office for the district in which the lands lie, shall be satisfied of the validity of the purchase.
Occupants prior to October 31, 1831, authorized to purchase.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons in actual settlement and cultivation, before or on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, upon any of the lands referred to by the act to which this is an amendment, and not disposed of by the first section of this act, or any former act of Congress, shall, on proof of such settlement and cultivation, and on paying into the treasury of the United States, within six months after the passage of this act, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, receive a patent for one hundred and sixty acres:Proviso. Proviso, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to alter or repeal the third section of the above-recited act.
Term of payment extended.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of which this is an amendment as requires that payment shall be made previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Approved, February 19, 1833.